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Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2005
Gonghuan Yang   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2011
Background InterVA is a widely disseminated tool for cause of death attribution using information from verbal autopsies. Several studies have attempted to validate the concordance and accuracy of the tool, but the main limitation of these studies is that
Flaxman Abraham D   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family engagement on neuroscience units with Post‐covid visiting policies: A retrospective chart review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Family engagement is crucial for achieving successful outcomes for both patients and hospitals. It supports safe transitions between care settings, providers, and ultimately, as illness progresses. However, in the hospital setting, family engagement is poorly operationalized.
Jennifer Morgan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The etiology of maternal mortality in developing countries: what do verbal autopsies tell us?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To reassess the practical value of verbal autopsy data, which, in the absence of more definitive information, have been used to describe the causes of maternal mortality and to identify priorities in programmes intended to save women's lives ...
Nancy L. Sloan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Causes and contributing factors of maternal mortality in Bosaso District of Somalia. A retrospective study of 30 cases using a Verbal Autopsy approach

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2019
Background: Somali women suffer from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Somalia characterises a specific low-income country situation with a mix of newly urbanized and nomadic culture combined with a frail health care ...
J. Aden, H. Ahmed, P. Östergren
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of a Novel Frailty Trigger for Use at Triage in the Emergency Department

open access: yesAcademic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Emergency Department (ED) Triage identifies patients with urgent needs. Frailty is not routinely identified and older patients presenting atypically may be inappropriately triaged as low priority. The introduction of a frailty modifier at triage is recommended in international guidelines, but is not yet widely‐adopted.
Elizabeth Moloney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing measles transmission in India: a dynamic modeling study using verbal autopsy data [PDF]

open access: gold, 2017
Stéphane Verguet   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Axial length, myopia progression, and myopic maculopathy in Stickler syndrome

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose We lack knowledge on the potentially progressive nature of and the prevalence of complications to myopia as a characteristic trait of Stickler syndrome. Methods This cross‐sectional study combines ophthalmic examination and medical record data on Danish patients with genetically confirmed Stickler syndrome type 1 (COL2A1) and type 2 ...
Kirstine B. Boysen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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